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Re: Cleveland boy with fake pistol killed by police

Originally Posted by Ikari

Dead kid, jubilant authoratarian; that's what you have.

You accuse me of deflection, then you flat out lie. Nice. At no time am I jubilant at the death of another.
See, that's the difference of actually doing that job. And being an armchair QB like yourself.

Re: Cleveland boy with fake pistol killed by police

Originally Posted by Ikari

No, action requires the officer pulling the trigger, and individual is responsible for their own actions. The data that is measurable is the number of kids shot dead by cops because they have fake guns. The cause is the threat assessment taught to the police. There are far too many little kids being killed by cops, ergo the threat assessment cannot sufficiently take in information and data to properly assess threat and must be revamped.

No, the cause is the kids pointing the weapons at the police or grabbing them when they are told otherwise. THAT is the cause.

What is needed is for parents to teach their children BASIC common sense.

Re: Cleveland boy with fake pistol killed by police

Originally Posted by americanwoman

I don't want to say this kid was dumb or stupid, obviously no matter what it was a fatal mistake in the end, but for all we know he was terrified and had the thought that maybe he just needed to show them it was just a toy. Maybe he was reaching for it and they said to put his arms in the air and in the split second he was going to put his arms up they shot. We don't know the time frame so maybe he did make a really bad decision or maybe the cops did. Until more information is known it is kind of speculation.

True, we can speculate all we want. However, what I don't speculate is that given these circumstances in the article I don't put the fault at the cops.

Re: Cleveland boy with fake pistol killed by police

Originally Posted by CRUE CAB

You accuse me of deflection, then you flat out lie. Nice. At no time am I jubilant at the death of another.
See, that's the difference of actually doing that job. And being an armchair QB like yourself.

Your post I quoted was indeed jubilant about the consequence. Not a lie when you say it.

Another deflection.

You know the time is right to take control, we gotta take offense against the status quo

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